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Re:What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic... by cheiVia0 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @10:12PM (#12697894)
He forgot the electrical attacks; fry your motherboard with a malicious USB device.
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Re:What are malicious USB keys and how to create a realistic... by Philipp__ on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:41AM (#12701047)
I think that was not the point of this, let's call it "experiment". Although I saw on Hackaday some "USB devices" that held huge capacitors in them, so when you plug it in, caps would discharge and your motherboard would be damaged.
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